Politics in the Sky: ; Contribute to Science, Not War of Words, On Warming

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With the Kyoto Protocol in the news again after the close of the United Nations' Montreal conference, it seems time to address the rhetoric of global warming. The global warming debate has become an increasingly political and increasingly manipulative discussion designed to promote sociopolitical agendas and not to better understand the causes, risks and benefits of climate control policy.

Let's focus on the terms of the debate. It is not the "climate control debate," but the "global warming debate." This phraseology tells us from the beginning that global warming is the problem and something needs to be done to change warming. The shift in focus from the way climate affects, positively and negatively, the environment and the economy to the way global warming is harming everyone and everything is a telltale sign that the debate has become increasingly less scientific and increasingly more political.

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Politics in the Sky: ; Contribute to Science, Not War of Words, On Warming

Sound bites and stump speeches predominate a field that needs more scientific research and more analytical inquiry. It's a case of the hypothes...

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